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Marketing Research of Union Pacific Railroad -
April 9th, 2011

The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) (NYSE: UNP), headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman.[1][2]
UP's route map covers most of the central and western United States west of Chicago and New Orleans. As of December 31, 2008 UP operates on 32,012 miles (51,518 km) of track, of which it owns outright 26,171 miles (42,118 km).[3] Both numbers represent the highest amount of any railroad currently operating in the United States.[4][5] It has achieved this size as a result of purchasing a large number of other railroads, notably the Missouri Pacific, Chicago and North Western, Western Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific (including the Rio Grande). Currently, Union Pacific owns 26% of Ferromex while Grupo Mexico owns the remaining 74%.
UP's chief railroad competitor is the BNSF Railway, which covers much of the same territory.

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This paper will focus on analyzing the different marketing processes of Peninsula hotel which focuses on the corporate, customers and competitors marketing strategies. It evaluates the current effectiveness of the said marketing strategies, at the same time, talk about the connections of the different marketing theories behind the process of strategic marketing planning by using 2 marketing models, which are: marketing strategy triangle and Porter’s generic strategies.

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In the end of the paper, the author gives the two most important opportunities which can be taken advantage of the company, in order to gain competitive advantage and maintain their position in the industry and market: mobile marketing and offering affordable services. The mobile marketing can help the company to gain more customers, due to the fact that the number of mobile Internet users is increasing and helps to improve and maintain their strong connection and relationship to their loyal customers. At the same time, by offering affordable room services, the hotels will be able to cope with the current global financial crisis and growing number of Mainland Chinese visitors.